Nate said...
Unrelated to RFK specifically but regarding the wider focus of the site:
Anyone read "Hitherby Dragons", a fantasy "webcomic without pictures" by RPG writer Rebecca Bergstrom? (imago.hitherby.com) I'm working my way through it at the moment - it's superficially cheerful and wacky, but it's very serious philosophically, dealing with the theological problem of evil. The series draws from just about every conceivable human mythology, but a deep and recurring core theme is ritual child abuse: specifically, in the fantasy mythology of the series, "emptying people to create gods" through the use of psychological and physical torture. In one story, a character creates a god to hide the experience of pain (including her memory of abuse) from herself.
I'm still reading the series (and it's still being written), so I haven't figured out yet just *why* this particular incarnation of evil was chosen as the theme. I'm not sure that Bergstrom would consider herself a literal believer in the strong form of the MKULTRA/SRA mythos as described on sites like this. But the resonances are quite specific and very interesting to me.
Maybe I've just become sensitised to the occult-intelligence mind control / ESP / abuse nexus scenario from my fringe research, and maybe the paranoid mind naturally drifts to thinking about abuses so dark. If Hitherby Dragons is based on core themes of mythology (and it seems to be), perhaps ritualised child abuse in the pursuit of power is a very, very old story indeed, not something spawned from the CIA.
But the mythos is out there elsewhere in recent pop culture, and not just in Chris Carter properties. The recent Joss Whedon Firefly TV series and movie Serenity is another example of the MKULTRA scenario reappearing in very thin disguise. A central character, River Tam, undergoes a black government mind-control program while at a school for gifted teenagers, aiming to create both a hyponotically-programmed assassin and psychic powers. Of course, in science fiction this kind of stuff happens every day, but this is a very specific form of the story, with hardly even the serial numbers filed off.
Does such wide retelling of the meme in pop-lit mean that the MKULTRA/SRA story is necessarily *true*? Or just that these are dark and horrible times and we subconsiously *want* such a horrible idea to be true, for entertainment's sake?
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